My art mainly portrays people - particularly the face/head though also the figure - though I also love to express natural, organic forms – trees, fungi, flowers. I express the ragged & decaying, the ugly & the quirky, along with the beautiful. I’m drawn to discovering and uncovering female qualities, whether abstract or related to an actual person, and to expressing and recovering what may be called the divine feminine – that nurturing but also powerful essence that ranges from the ferociousness of a lioness to the comforting presence of a mother hen to expressions of sorrow and grief along with love and care. I like to express the range of human and female qualities, both the more and the less acceptable, particularly due to the process of aging!
I frequently find that my art comes through what feels like ‘mess-making’ using acrylic paints and other media, and that then, when engaging mindfully with bodily movements - push, pull, slap, press, something new and surprising can emerge.
I use a variety of media and processes - paint, ink, charcoal, collage, along with screen-printing and mono-printing. As well as new materials, I like to use discarded materials that have had a life, and imprint upon them a new form or meaning which can express the reality that people have been pushed, pulled, dragged and pressed and have come through changed, and through which life emerges in new and unexpected ways.
